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The Sultan Selim loved the Jews very much, for he realized that with their help he could strike nations and kill mighty kings. [ . . . ] And it came to pass on the third day, when the…
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Elijah Capsali
Places:
Candia, Republic of Venice
(Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1523
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Near sunset one shall light a Shabbat candle and before saying the blessing it is necessary to say “I am not receiving Shabbat” even if one already lit it, until it is Shabbat.
And then…
Contributor:
Meir Benveniste
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1565
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If the Lord shepherds me in the wilderness,
I will find that my cup runs over for me
With vines, fig trees, and pomegranates;
There my soul will be satisfied and live.
A…
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Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen
Places:
Zante, Republic of Venice
(Zakynthos, Greece)
Date:
Before 1719
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Simeon ben Shetaḥ would say: You should cross-examine the witnesses extensively, and take care with your words, lest they learn how to lie from them [m. Avot 1:9].
Solomon ha-Levi explained: The…
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Solomon le-vet ha-Levi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1553
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Mattetiah Spagnolo
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Candia, Republic of Venice
(Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
1583
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And moreover, that which is called “external wisdom” is indeed the daughter of my father [see Genesis 12:20], a good doctrine (Proverbs 4:2) and a gift of God [see Ecclesiastes 3:13], who graces us…
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Willem Jacobsz, Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
Places:
Candia, Republic of Venice
(Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
1629
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The polemical Judeo-Spanish work (written in Hebrew characters) Fuente clara (Clear Fountain; drawing on Psalm 84) was published in Salonika. Its anonymous author, a philosopher and physician…
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Anonymous
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1595
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We translated Musar haskel for the following five reasons:
The first is that our hearts have become so hardened that instruction does not easily penetrate them. This is why we wrote this educational…
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Isaac Bekhor Amarachi, Joseph ben Meir Sason
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1843
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Moses Bili ben Judah
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Candia, Republic of Venice
(Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
1614
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The Harrison Miscellany is an early eighteenth-century codex of sixty leaves featuring delicate gouache illustrations and Hebrew texts. Each illustration (likely executed by a Venetian, non-Jewish…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Corfu, Republic of Venice
(Corfu, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1720